28/04/2022 - The webinar, organised in collaboration with the Stuttgart International Festival of Animated Film and Animation Production Days, will give a glimpse into the future of storytelling
A Vermont-based solar energy company believes that storytelling has the power to bring people into the movement for climate action. Films about sustainability are an.
The grand prix for shorts went to Paul Mas’s
Precious, a stop-motion film about a misfit schoolkid. It has already picked up several awards, including at Estonia’s PÖFF Shorts, and has now qualified for an Oscar run. The jury said:
Tackling subjects familiar to all of us, that of being othered and misunderstood, of bullying and of friendship,
Precious skilfully handles the sensitive narrative with subtlety and a gentleness of expression. The story presents complex layers of social forces in a seemingly simple narrative …
Precious is a timeless animation that touched us all and kept us thinking.
With awards season over, we at Cartoon Brew are casting our eyes to this year’s short films. Over the coming months, we’ll be profiling the most interesting new shorts on the festival circuit and speaking to the people who made them, up-and-coming talent and established masters alike.
Our latest interviewee falls squarely into the latter camp. Since bursting onto the scene with her graduation film
Girls Night Out (1987), which vacuumed up three awards at Annecy Festival, Joanna Quinn has remained a major presence on the indie animation scene. Her traditionally animated shorts, which include
Body Beautiul, Famous Fred, The Wife of Bath, and